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April 14, 2005
This dark, cozy boutique has been open since November, 2003. The lightweight, hand-loomed cotton and silk clothes with sophisticated embroidery based on Egyptian, Tibetan and Celtic designs hang on either wall. They're arranged by tone: water, fire, earth and forest. The men's clothes come in all four tones as well, but that inventory is low so they sit in their own section. Ropp himself is every bit as colorful as his clothes. The combination hippie/Wall St. shark recently celebrated his 60th birthday. He began 30 years ago designing T-shirts, one of which hangs today in the Smithsonian. Known for walking his Great Dane down Park Ave. in New York while wearing a top hat and tails, he also a tendency towards incendiary quotes. To the Honolulu Advertiser two years ago, he even paraphrased Nietzsche by noting that "fashion is dead." More recently, he told a magazine, "I am not in fashion per se; I am in 'artsy fartsy.'"
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